At BrazilJS 2018 this year in Porto Alegre, Mathias Bynens (a V8 developer at Google) shared some insights for code optimization if you are using (and you probably are) the V8 engine for Javascript. Here’s what I learned. For those who haven’t heard of it, Google’s V8 is an open source JavaScript engine written in C++ developed by The Chromium Project for Chromium and Google Chrome web browser.